On Saturday 12 April 2008 04:19:16 pm Khoa Ton wrote: > lostson wrote: > > On Friday 11 April 2008 05:26:03 pm Dean S. Messing wrote: > >> LostSon wrote: > >> : I have recently gotten a 28 inch lcd monitor and fonts are not > >> : looking as crisp as I would like especially white text on a black > >> : background in a terminal for instance or with a transparent > >> : background. I am using a fully updated Fedora 8 install with a nvidia > >> : 7600GS graphics card using the livna nvidia drivers. The monitor I > >> : have is a HANNS-G hg281-D. I am looking for suggestions on how to make > >> : these fonts look better in this situation. I have the option > >> : > >> : Option "DPI" "96x96" > >> : > >> : set in my xorg.conf as suggested on the fedora forums and that has > >> : helped as far as the other text on the screen for instance the menu's > >> : and text in the gui's looks very good its seems to be just light text > >> : on dark backgrounds, thanks in advance for tips or tricks you may > >> : have. > >> > >> Have you checked that you are running the panel at its native > >> resolution (1920x1200, I think)? If not, then the card or the panel > >> has to scale the video data and this will ruin otherwise sharp fonts. > >> > >> Dean > > > > Yes I am running at 1920x1200 but the effect is there anyway. > > A couple of things to check: > > 1) Best image quality is achieved with DVI. If you're using > VGA with this monitor, try to get the best cable, especially > for long lengths. > > 2) My Acer X241WSD has a similar problem in VGA input. Though > the computer (FC5) is configured for 1920x1200 in xorg.conf, > somewhere to the monitor things get stuck on a lower resolution, > causing the 1920x1200 image to be downscaled to 1600x1200, > thus looking slightly fuzzy. The 1920x1200 pixels are logically > there in X, but the monitor's OSD shows 1600x1200. Acer's > customer support gave the standard Linux not supported line :-( > > I'd be interested to know what resolution your monitor's OSD thinks its > running at. I haven't found a solution to 2) yet, though... > > Khoa Well the OSD says it is running at 1920x1200 I have had it hooked up via vga and dvi with a dvi to vga adapter as this monitor has vga component and hdmi hookups instead of a dvi port. Could it possibly be my seating arrangement i sit lower and my monitor sits up so i look up at it. When getting closer and a little bit higher it appears to go away but its hard to work trying to hold myserlf up, heh. -- LostSon http://lostsonsvault.org
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